By Jennifer Derke Today, IAB Tech Lab’s OpenRTB working group announced that the much-anticipated OpenRTB 3.0, AdCOM 1.0, and Ad Management 1.0 specifications are finalized and ready for industry adoption. Ads.cert: Signed Bid Requests remains in beta for continued early implementations, and participation with the working group to work on […]

By Amit Shetty The Digital Video Ad Serving Template Version 4.1 (VAST 4.1) was released for public comment on June 14th 2018, and received an unprecedented amount of feedback, reflecting the level of interest in this release of VAST. Following discussions in the Digital Video Working Group, we are now […]

By Jennifer Derke The digital advertising industry is grappling with important questions about the programmatic supply chain. In an open ecosystem with significant proprietary technology, supply and demand partners may not know how each other’s platforms make decisions. Highlighted in recent trade press, unexpected practices or algorithmic behavior can have […]

By Jennifer Derke You wouldn’t buy a “Rolex” from a man on the street in a trench coat full of (likely counterfeit) watches, right? Then why buy ad inventory from unauthorized sellers? Ads.txt is a powerful resource to know which supply sources are trustworthy in selling publisher inventory. Sophisticated buyers […]

By Shailley Singh We announced the formation of the Blockchain Working Group on September 18, 2017 under the leadership of Richard Bush, President, NYIAX, and Michael Palmer, Director, GroupM. This was followed by a live member event on October 18 at MetaX HQ in Santa Monica and a kick-off meeting […]

By Jennifer Derke First launched in September 2017, ads.txt has seen rapid adoption by the digital advertising industry. There are over 2 million domains with ads.txt files, and buyers are committing to buying ads.txt inventory. However, full adoption of ads.txt requires that buyers are specifically validating each of the sellers […]

By Jennifer Derke Buyers and buy-side ad tech partners must develop a strategy of buying publisher inventory that is sold only by authorized digital sellers, as declared in publisher ads.txt files. IAB Tech Lab’s ads.txt aggregator is a simple, easy-to-use tool that helps by providing efficient delivery of aggregated ads.txt structured […]

By Sam Tingleff Recently there have been multiple stories in the industry press hinting that the ads.txt specification has a “loophole” or is otherwise flawed in a way that is being exploited within the mobile app programmatic ecosystem. The Forensiq report specifically, and miscommunication in the press, was flawed in […]